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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
A judges Temperance Lecture.

Justice Duffy is an effective temperance
orator. He portrays in vivid colors the mis-
cries of drunkard. Recently a man was
brought before him at the Yorkvlle Ponce
Court after being locked upa week for lnto1l-
cation. He was well dressed and OF respect,
able appearance. His face, however, sno"eo
the effects OF dissipation.
"You ought to be ashamed OF yourself"
said the little Judge, warmly. "Why do you
spend all. your time in barrooms and your
money for whiskyl Are you in your right
mindl What do you do for liying?
.rm stonecutter," was the reply.
"a stonecutter! A pretty fellow you are
for stonecutter! Instead of earning $4.25 q
day you, had rather be idle and turn your
money into drink. Possibly you are one OF
those fellows who frequent liquor saloons and
talk about the condition Of society. You
want an equal division of the earth's goods
If you got it you'd drink it up and call Tor
another division. How old are you"
NEARLY 40, SIR"
"Nhere do you suppose you'll be When
you're 609 Broken down, unable 10 WORK,
and not soul to care for you. And then
you'll be travelling to the Island as a regular
hummer How nice you'll feel up there, with
500 others like yourself, drunken sots every
one
"Yes, but don't expect to live that long,
Judge"
"Tell, don't think you will if you keep on
this way. If you ever come before me again
charged with drunkenness I'll commit you
for a year. Mark that, now. Clear out"
And the fellow cleared.-NeU York Sun
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
The Fight Against tho Saloon.

The movement against the saloon gathers
strength as it proceeds Everywhere through
out the Union-North, East, West, and South
tho people are rising in rebellion against
the rule of rum. Restrictive legislation in vari-
GUS forms and constitutional prohibition are
the principal lines along which the warfare
proceeds. During the present season the Legls-
fatures of no less than twenty -one States have
been called upon to consider the drink evil
and take action toward its suppression. In
nearly every one of these States something
has been done to check the growth Of the
saloon and curtal its power. High license
laws, local option, and prohibitory amend
ments are the order Of the day. Never be-
fore in the history of the temperance cause
so deep, so widespread, so earnest, so
determined as now. That most powerful OF
agencies the public press, has at last arrayed
itself against the traffic; many Of the leading
secular journals of the country have adopted
tone Of bitter hostility to the grog shop, and
are attacking it daily with all the force and
ability they have at command No stronger
or more effective arguments against the
saloon can be found anywhere than those put
forward in the editorial columns of some Of
the New York dailies. The gain for temper
ance in this direction has been Of the most
significant and promising character Public
men, too, men Of affairs, judges, statesmen,
political leaders, who have hitherto held
themselves aloof from the discussion Of tenn
perance, are now taking sides in the conflict,
and many of the ablest and best Of them have
openly declared against "the business of
manufacturing drunkards." The lines are
being more and more sharply drawn every
day between the adherents Of the rum-shop
and the friends of peace, order and sobriety.
The hour is at hano when every man must
make decision in this matter. And when it
comes to this issue everywhere We cannot
doubt where the majority will stand. The
sentiment Of the country is overwhelming
There can be no mistaking this fact. The
present movement is not dependent upon
wave of popular excitement; it is not born
Of a passing enthusiasm. It is the outcome
ofsyears of wrong and suffering induced by
the cursed drink traffic; it is a revolt OF tho
people against power whose reign OF out
rage, vice, and crime has become too terribls
to be longer endured.-M Y Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

Even the weakest man is strong
enough to enforce his convictions. =
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
Six Score and Ten.

In Hungary there lives a man who is
over 100 years of age. He enjoys good
health, and, what is more, still retains
full possession of his mental faculties.
Franz Macy was born in 1856. His pa
rents were serfs, and died soon after
his birth Up to the age of twenty he
performed the duties of shepherd. He
then became soldier, and took part
as an old hussar in the great battle OF
Leipsic in 1913. Being taken prisoner
by the French, he afterward returned
to Hungary in 1915, where he took SER
vice as coachman. He now lives on
the bounty of the inhabitants of his
native village Esoknya (Somoyy Com
itat). Macy does not remember having
had days illness. He used to smoke
up TO the year 1924; he then gave it up
for reasons of economy. The protuse
hair and full beard of the old man are
yellowish white. He has few of his
lower teeth eft. Long ago he lost the
use of his left eye. and has lately be-
gun to suffer pain in his right one. He
trips along lightly, aud speaks in meas
ured tones. He takes only one meal a
day, and is very em')erate. Macy has
never been married, and says he never
wanted wife. Perhaps that swhy he
has lived to be twice as old "a so many
millions of his fellow men.-B1tddpeS
ter TagJlah
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
A Frank Admission.

The Democrats of the South, who have
made a practice for years of suppressing
the votes of colored men and have tried to
quiet all protest from the North by sneers
at the bloody shirt, are getting more open
and defiant in their lawless course. Gov
McEnery, of Louisiana, declared last week
in campaign speech that the maintenance
of the supremacy of the white race in that
State was impossible unless colored citi-
zens we're excluded from the polls and
denied their civil aud political rights. He
admitted publicly what the Democratic par
ty has been privately preaching for years.
He makes no concealment of the plan by
which the Democratic party has ruled in
the South and elected Democratic Presi-
dent. IL is surprising that, with such frank
admissions of Democratic crimes against
the ballot, some people of the North should
persist in avoiding discussion of the purity
of the ballot and be intimidated from de-
handing their rights by the cry that they
are reopening sectional animosities and
strife. There is no doubt that the Demo-
cratic party holds its power in State and
national affairs by its course of
coercion, fraud, and defiance of the
law. Such admissions as this by
Democl attic Governor are not neces-
sary to enlighten the public mind. There
is duty which devolves upon every citi-
zen, in demanding for the colored men the
right to cast free ballot and have il fairly
counted. 1t is duty which the Repub-
lican party must assume, and never lay
down until the question of the suppressed
suffrage of the South is settled and settled
right. Mr.. Cleveland pleases the South
ern ear by prating about the era of recon-
Citation. and demanding a cessation of
sectional bitterness and strife. There is
no doubt that the South is perfectly con-
tented to have n rest of this kind, so long
as it can continue in its fraudulent
and lawless treatment Of Southern suf-
frage. So long as the vote of one
Southerner is allowed to Offset the vote of
three Northern men, the South is quite
willing to cry peace and ask nothing better
than to be let alone. But MIR. Cleveland
will learn in due time that there can be nc
peace that compromises with evil or that
| permits great wrongs to go unrighted
-Des MONIES Register.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

Edward Burgess, the designer OF the
Puritan. the Msyhower, and the Vol
unteer, is q Bostonian. The Burgess
family was a very wealthy one, and the
son Edward spent much of his time in
sailing crack yachts on Boston Bay,
and studying naval architecture, and
when the time came when it was neces-
sary for him to do for himself. he was
not wanting. Before he built the Puri-
tan. his first great success, he had de-
signed some small cat boats, but when
the Priscilla, which the New York
Yacht Club intended to compete with
the Genesta for the Americas cup, was
built, Mr.. Forbes commissioned Bur
CESS to design the Puritan. The new
boat was built by the Lawleys, of Bos-
ton. So successful was the Puritan
that when the Genesta challenged for
the cup General Payne (than whom
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

there is no more enthusiastic, patriotic
yachtsman in the country, gave the de-
signer commission to build the May
flower. Her success is so we'll known
as not to need any repetition here, but
when the Thistle was built in Scot
land, and on our model, too,
and when the reports of her sue
cess reached us, General Paine was
not content 70 allow the fate of the cup
to depend upon the Mayflower, and
Burgess was again summoned to the
rescue. This time he built of steel
and on the banks of the Delaware.
The Volunteer is only few inches
longer than the Mayfiower. Her first
race was sailed in the contest for the
Goelet cup August l., 1857, at New
port, Rhode Island. In this race the
Volunteer beat the Mayfower nine
minutes twenty-nine seconds actual
time, but she had also to allow the
Mayilower forty-seven seconds. The
Volunteer won the Boston Herald tro-
ply and the Brenton Reef Cup. Be-
sides the boats above mentioned Mr..
Burgess has designed the Sachem, un-
doubtedly the best American schooner
ahoat. His steam yacht Hanniel, and
the cutter Eondina, are also Justly cele-
brated crafts. Mr.. Burgess is Har-
ward graduate and Appointment member
of the Eastern Yacht Club, being at
one time Secretary and Treasurer OF
the Association.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
INGALLS,.
The Kansas Senator Interviewed ON the
Prospects Of 1SSS-What He
Thinks or Cleveland.
From the New York Sun I

From the New York Sun.
Senator Ingalls, was feeling his best, and
expressed himself with his usual sparkling
candor, and the interview is given word for
word, AS follows
"Since Cleveland has disappointed the
Democrats and mugwumps as well, will he
likely be the choice Of his party in 1882
Cleveland will be renominated by ac-
clamation. The Democratic leaders hate
him, and would be glad to have him beaten,
but they gnaw n file. He has neither
learning, eloquence, nor good manners,
and is therefore an ideal Democratic can
didate. He is dull. narrow, phlegmatic
egotst. We have had commonplace Presi
dents before, but Cleveland reaches low
water mark, morally and mentally"
of late there has been much specula-
ton as to candidates for President on the
Republican ticket in which there has been
mingled great deal more sentiment than
sense. / would like to have your views as
to whom you think the party should hom-
mate"
Blaine undoubtedly remains the prefer
ence of majority OF the Republicans, but
the irrational enthusiasm of 1881 has be-
gun to subside. The disposition is grow
ing to consult the Judgment rather than the
imagination of the people. Sherman has
some elements of strength, and evidently
intends 10 contest the nomination with
Blaine. This may result in the selection
of compromise candidate like Lincoln,
Allison, Harrison, Hawley, Foraker, or
some one not yet above the horizon. There
are several statesmen lurking in ambush
for this emergency. Lincoln is a modest,
honest man of respectable talents, whose
prominence is due to his genealogy. ALI
son has an unimpeachable record because
he never expresses an opinion till he has
found ont what everybody else thinks.
Harrison, like Lincoln, has pedigree,
bat his abilities are greater, and his nomi-
nation would propitiate the civil service
reformers. Hawley is bluff, strong,
popular, solderly man, who could COM
mand the full strength of the party. The
situation appears favorable now for Re-
publican success in 1888. If We are beaten
we shall defeat ourselves. The campaign
will be the most animated and intense in
the history of American politics"
"Whst are likely to be the vital issues be-
tween the two great parties in 1882"
The principal issue will be the record
made by the Democrats during Cleveland s
administration; how far their accusations
have been verified: how far their promises
and pledges have been fulfilled. Much de-
ponds on the action of Congress, at the
next session, on the tariff the whisky and
tobacco tax, the surplus, pensions. the
fisheries, labor, prohibition. and suffrage.
The issue can not be definitely formulated
till after the adjournment of Congress next
summar
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

curious change during his occupancy OF
the White House. Wearing a No. 10 col
lar and No. hat, surrounded by syco-
phantic admirers, Landed by a seryile mug
wump press, and dominating absolutely an
obsequious Cabinet, Mr.. Cleveland, not
content with the performance of duties
essentially executive" has used to great
excess the xtra-exscutive powers of his
Office, especially that of the veto, and has
at last come 10 consider himself the en-
bodment of sovereignty itself.-Chi-
c0oo T,;Luao
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

In Greene County, Georgia, two
negroes had some trouble over a lot
of walnuts. The one to whom the
nuts belonged caught another stealing
them, and took his ak and made him
carry them back to where he got them,
but the negro would not put them out
of his sack. So the owner sent his
little boy to the house for his shotgun,
and when the boy came in sight the
negro who had stolen them threw his
sack down and broke for the gun,
and, after springing both hammers,
turned the joke on the owner, who had
to run to keep from getting shot.
After he had run the owner off he went
back and got the nuts and carried them
home
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

BUFFALoNIANs are not noted for be-
ing very good liars, but the following
tale related by one of them ought to
startle even Georgian. He SAYS he
was lettering about a country fair in
England when man approached him
and said: "Are you working or will
you stand?' g. II stand" said the Buf.
falonian, as he waited developments.
During the next fifteen minutes the
stranger came to him three times and
handed him money. At last he began
to think that he had had enough oil
STANDING" and he returned to the no.
tel. He had been doing "stool-pigeon'
work for a gang of pickpockets
who had mistaken him for some one
else. He made 500 by the operation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

EX-SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is
undoubtedly dying of brain disease,
says an Alabama paper. He was not a
temperate man, but harmed himself
more than anyone else. In mind as In
physique he was robust and masculine.
Rising from humble life and honorable
toll at the carpenters bench, he became
q great lawyer and noted United States
Senator. His alterations of mind were
noticed some years ago, but did not be-
come a public matter until he ADAM
doned his seat in the "house of lords"
at Washington and camped out at De-
troit. While Mr.. Jones was presumed
to be in pursuit of Western heiress,
we once asked q Senator what was
really the matter with him. He said /:
ZONES is crazy on several subjects-on
rel gion, on women, on liquor, and on
the Constitution. 1t is sad case.
This unfortunate man had lovable,
genial, almost boyish, temperament,
allied to great strength of mind AID
body. He showed his metle by the
progress made from the bottom of the
ladder almost to the top.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

A LADY living at Columbus, Ga, no.
ticed that the dog kept barking as if
something was wrong. Finally the
dog came to her door and scratched
upon it till she opened it. Then he ran
under the house, indicating by his &C.
ton that he desired her to follow him.
The woman followed, and discovered a
light under the house. She awoke the
family, and an investigation showed
that some one had placed bundle of
splinters on one of the sleepers. The
fire was discovered just in time to save
the residence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

THE Augusta Chronicle says that
the Hon. Simon Cameron is not the
oldest surviving United States Senator.
1t claims that honor for the Hon. John
p. King of that city, who was born in
Kentucky in 1899, entered the Senate
on appointment in 1888, and was elected
to succeed himself in the following
year, twenty-three years before Mr..
Cameron entered the Senate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

THE destructive habits of rabbits are
well known. In Australia they abound.
When q servant enters situation she
requires a promise that at least one
day in the week she shall not be obliged
to eat rabbits. In three years $4,000,
900 of these rabbits were destroyed,
and bounty of $l20,O00 has been paid
out for their destruction.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

j. M. BAILEY, once famous as the
wit of the Danbury NelcS, has faded
from the humorous world and is now
an actor in daily repeated domestic
tragedy. His wife is insane and de-
mands his entire attention. He must
dress her and arrange her hair and at
tend to all her wants. She is like a
child, and he gives her all his affection,
time, and attention. His devotion is
described as something heroic.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

OF a strange freak of nature the
Steuben Republican says that Henry
Zimmerman, of Scott Township, has a
freak of nature in the form of pig
with only two legs, both in the front.
Strange to say. it runs about with per-
feet ease with its body clear from the
ground. There is not sign of hip
or leg behind. The pig is four weeks
old, and is as fat and healthy as any in
the litter"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

EIGHTY-EIGHT men, who are called
"rebels, belonging to n certain religious
sect" have been beheaded at one time
in Chang Chou, China. The offense
of this sect seems to be that they APP
pear in the streets as vendors of chill
dren's toys, the chief of which are cash
swords, daggers ard dragons, each
formed out of $50 of the cash coins,
strung together in various shapes.
They are said to have annoyed the peo-
pie a great deal by cheating the
children, and to have caused much dis
turbance 10y higgling about prices, and
q Chinese paper naively adds: "Since
the aforementioned cases have been SO
severely dealt with not one of them has
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
The Mystery OF Evil and Good.

Little Mollie was caught by her
mother stealing apples from the tree
and severely rebuked. Her mother told
her she must not touch those apples,
as she was going to make preserves of
them.
On the following Sunday little Mol
lies school while walking home
with her from Sunday-school, asked
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

TIE recent experiments with the
dynamite gun at New York have dem
onstrated that they can place dynamite
in destructive quantities mile and a
quarter off with considerable accuracy.
1t is probable that the range of the gun
may be greatly increased. Also, the
quantity of the explosive which may be
fired at any charge may be made large
enough to destroy any vessel yet built.
In addition to the gun, the projectile is
now fitted with an electrical apparatus
whereby the dynamite is positively ex-
ploded when any substance other than
air is encountered during the flight OF
the shell. During the recent trials of
this gun in New York harbor vessel
one and half miles distant was COM
pletely destroyed by two or three shots
from this gun. The delicacv of the ex-
ploding apparatus was well illustrated
by one shell, which was exploded by
merely striking portion of the stand
ing rigging of the vessel. 1t is evident
that this method of warfare, should il
prove as efficient as it now promises to
be, will render harmless the most Of.
fective torpedo boat now constructed.
There has been endless talk about the
defenseless condition of the United
States coast, but it is evident that O
few of Lieut.. Zalinski's guns, scattered
along the coast line, would make il
rather warm for any foreign vessel
which might visit us with hostile intent
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

QUEER ideas of giving dying Indian
a good send-off are entertained by the
dusky denizens of Indian Territory.
Five minutes before Otter Belt, q
Comanche chief, drew his last breath
his friends held him up erect and
rugged him out in his best war cos
tune. Then they painted him red, set
his war bonnet on his head, tied up his
hair in beaver skins, and laid him
down; just minute later he died.
Then his five wives took sharp butcher
knives, slashed their faces with long,
deep cuts, cut themselves in other
places, and beat their bleeding bodies
and pulled their hair. They also
burned everything they had, tepees,
furniture, and even most of the cloth
ing they had on. A big crowd of
bucks looked on and killed ten horses,
including favorite team of Fress Adj
dington, on whose ranch Otter Belt
lived.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

Saginaw dogs think there is no law
against chewing up French letter-carrier,
but Mr.. Legault, whom the dogs have been
making a test case of, resisted the canine
sdvances one day to the tune of four dead
dogs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
Ths TrMs 9orthsrusr.
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.

EMPEROR WILLIAM was recently con-
graduated upon his good health, when
he said: eyes, / feel very well. but 1
must be SO, for there is one wish which
/ hope to live to see fulfilled-to hear
once more the voice of my son Fritz
firm and sonorous as it was of old"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

PHIL ARMOUR, of Chicago, has no
cigarette-smoking in his Office. A legend
to the effect that it will not be al
lowed is conspicuously posted over his
cashiers window, and when his two
hundred clerks walk in to draw their
salaries they always remember to leave
the paper-wrapped offender at home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02
been seen on the street. The people
highly appreciate the enforcement OF
stringent laws and prompt action.

THE British Medi al Journal gives
the following particulars of the height,
weight, and dimensions of Thomas
Longley of Dover, who is said to DO
the heaviest British subject in the
world. MIR. Longley, who is publ
can, is forty years of age, being born
(of parent not above the normal size)
in 1S4S. AS baby he was not con-
sidered large His present weight Is
40 stone, height feet inch,
measurement of the waist so inches,
size of leg % inches. He finds con-
siderable difficulty in walking, and
does not trust himself in a carriage for
fear of breaking the springs. He is
said to be very temperate both in eat
ing and drinking, and has never suffer
ed from any ill-health of serious ma
tura
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

"wILL you please insert this obitu-
airy notice." asked an old gentleman of
an editor. Il make bold to ask it be-
cause the deceased had great many
friends here who'd be glad to hear of
his death. "-Philddephia Call.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02

-Richfel6 & Davenport, of Grass
Lake, purchased few days ago at Lexing-
ton, KY, for $4,000, q valuable colt. The
animal died on the journey. They had re-
fused 50, 900 for the colt just before he
xas shipped.